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U.S. Army is Held Accountable for Discrimination Against a Transgender Civilian Employee
U.S. Army is Held Accountable for Discrimination Against a Transgender Civilian Employee
U.S. Army is held accountable for discrimination against a transgender civilian employee, but LGBT troops continue to be denied equal protections.
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What’s The Best LGBT Film Of The Year? You Decide!
What’s The Best LGBT Film Of The Year? You Decide!
The gay Super Bowl, which some refer to as the Academy Awards, is still months away, but if you can’t wait that long to throw your support behind the year’s best film, here’s good news. Queerty readers can tell us which was the film most likely to become a future queer classic. There were so many deserving projects to choose from this year, but we managed to narrow it down to six. Watch the trailers for each and then click over to the 2014 Queerties ballot page to cast your vote.
The Imitation Game: A look at events in the life of Alan Turing opens next month but is already being heralded as one of the year’s best films, due primarily to the portrayal of the late persecuted gay hero by Benedict Cumberbatch.
Lilting: Exquisite cinematography and a delicate performance by out actor Ben Whishaw helped make this gentle drama about a mother coming to terms with her dead son’s lover one of the year’s most rewarding films.
Love Is Strange: The latest from acclaimed director Ira Sachs starred master thespians John Lithgow and Alfred Molina as a couple whose long relationship is challenged after they finally tie the knot.
Neighbors: Seth Rogen showed that he can make homoerotic comedies without the aid of bestie James Franco. Zac Efron costarred as “something a gay guy designed in a laboratory!”
The Normal Heart: Larry Kramer’s powerful stage drama about the early years of the AIDS epidemic in New York City finally made it to film, thanks to Ryan Murphy and a stellar cast, led by Mark Ruffalo and Matt Bomer.
Pride: This crowd-pleaser, currently in theaters, depicts the true story of a ragtag group of young gay and lesbian activists in London in the mid-1980s who decided to raise money to support the striking miners of a small Welsh town.
VOTING IN THE QUEERTIES IS EASY: Just head over to the ballot page and click on your favorite nominees.
You can come back and vote once every day until the contest closes on November 02, 2014, at midnight Eastern.
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ACLU Sues San Bernardino Sheriff's Department Over Anti-LGBT Discrimination
ACLU Sues San Bernardino Sheriff's Department Over Anti-LGBT Discrimination
LGBT inmates at the West Valley Detention Center, both current and former, have filed suit against the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department for discrimination and abuse faced behind bars. The prison system often separates LGBT inmates for their own safety, but that discrepancy should not reinforce and legitimize the difficulties they have faced according to the suit, from name calling to longer jail sentences.
The Los Angeles Times reports:
The suit cites several cases in which gay inmates were allegedly denied equal access to drug rehabilitation and educational programs. Gay inmates were allowed less time out of their cells and were unable to participate in work programs that would reduce their sentences, the suit claims.
“In the United States, we punish people because of the crime they commit, not because of who they are,” said Melissa Goodman, an ACLU attorney who filed the suit along with the law firm Kaye, McLane, Bednarski & Litt, LLP.
The ‘Althernative Lifestyle Tank’ where LGBT inmates are kept became a personal hell for the fifteen people filing suit alongside the ACLU, including Peter Guzman who claims he was kept in his cell for up to 23 hours each day.
Guzman, who spent seven months in West Valley awaiting trial in a fraudulent check-writing case, said that from his cellblock he could see that straight inmates were often out of their cells. Sometimes, violent offenders who were straight served food to the gay inmates as part of a work program that gay inmates were denied access to, Guzman said…
Guzman said a deputy once slammed his face against the bars because he is gay.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s office, along with deputies and sheriff John McMahon, are being named in the suit, and for good reason: they either enforced or committed the in-jail discriminatory behavior.
[Former Indiana sheriff deputy and West Valley inmate Dan] McKibben (pictured far right with partner Sean), 51, said he once saw deputies beating a gay inmate. Deputies, he said, regularly used gay slurs when addressing inmates.
McKibben, who spent about two months in the gay cellblock, said he was appalled at the behavior of those who’d taken an oath to uphold the law.
“When you’re sworn, you’re sworn. And I took that oath,” he said. “These guys, every other minute, were violating that.”
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Brooke Candy, Nick Knight and Steven Klein for LGBT (Teaser)
Brooke Candy, Nick Knight and Steven Klein for LGBT (Teaser)
Video promorcional para um projeto especial em protesto contra a lei a comunidade LGBT na Russia, criado e dirigido por Nicki Knight.
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Gay Man Details The Physical And Mental Anguish Of His Abusive Relationship
Gay Man Details The Physical And Mental Anguish Of His Abusive Relationship
Conversations about abusive relationships among same-sex couples often go untold, but one survivor opened up to HuffPost Live to share his harrowing experience with an abusive boyfriend.
John Mio, a domestic violence survivor and advocate, found himself in an abusive relationship two years ago, unsure of how to escape. Like many similar stories, his relationship didn’t start off that way.
“It was love at first sight, how it usually is,” Mio explained to host Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani. “We got engaged, moved in together and [then] everything started going downhill from there.”
The abuse Mio endured is hard to imagine. It started as verbal and then got brutally physical.
“Things kept getting worse and worse, to the point where I had to eat my dinner off the floor,” he said. “I couldn’t speak because I’d get punched in the face.”
The violence didn’t stop there. The breaking point for Mio, he described, was when he was locked in a garage for nearly two weeks.
While he said he knew the abuse was “very wrong,” he “didn’t know how to get out” because he’d left his family and friends behind to pursue the relationship.
But Mio is now free from the abuse and is sharing his story in the hopes of helping others.
“I’m not saying I regret everything that happened because it’s made me a stronger person that I am today. It just shows that if I share my story, it’ll get out to people and maybe they can see whatever happens to you, you can make a difference,” he said.
Watch the full segment on same-sex domestic violence here.
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Bisexual X-Men director Bryan Singer and Queer as Folk's Michelle Clunie having baby together
Bisexual X-Men director Bryan Singer and Queer as Folk's Michelle Clunie having baby together
Clunie: ‘We are very excited about co-parenting and starting our little 21st century, progressive, American family’
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North Carolina Capital Adds Protection for Transgender City Employees
North Carolina Capital Adds Protection for Transgender City Employees
Earlier this week, the Raleigh City Council added “gender identity or expression” to their non-discrimination policy.
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Being Gay In Prison May Be Worse Than You Ever Imagined
Being Gay In Prison May Be Worse Than You Ever Imagined
A class action lawsuit filed by 15 former and current gay, bi and trans (GBT) inmates of San Bernardino County Jail in California alleges gross mistreat and discrimination based on the prisoners’ sexual orientations.
Among the accusations are claims of being held in solitary for longer than is allowed — up to 22 hours a day in some cases — and being denied access to rehabilitation programs.
They all went through, or are currently in the ‘Alternative Lifestyle Tank’ at the West Valley Detention, where self-identifying GBT inmates are sent to keep them separated from the general prison population.
The lawsuit says that the, “inmates are not given equal access to opportunities to reduce their sentences, services, programs and facilities, and are often treated in an abusive and neglectful manner. In short, GBT inmates at WVDC serve longer sentences and endure substantially worse conditions of confinement simply because they are gay, bisexual or transgender.
Unlike the male, non-GBT general population, sentenced GBT inmates at WVDC are generally not allowed to participate in the inmate work program, and, to the extent they may occasionally have limited access, it is substantially less than that available to non-GBT inmates.”
They also claim that due to guards’ “unwarranted feat of AIDS,” they, “do not conduct the required safety checks for GBT cells,” and that GBT inmates are routinely subjected to abusive conduct and derogatory name calling.
The suit has been filed on behalf of all GBT inmates at the West Valley Detention Center. They are being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a local Californian law firm, and are seeking damages for their treatment.
“Gay, bisexual and transgender people housed at West Valley Detention Center are punished twice, first for the crimes the allegedly committed, and again, simply because of their sexual orientation or gender identity,’ said attorney Brenden Hamme of the ACLU to CBS.
They’ve been told most frequently that it’s for their own safety, but jails are quite capable and are constitutionally mandated to not only provide for the safety of their charges but to also provide equal access to jail programs and facilities.”
If successful, the lawsuit could affect how GBT prisoners are treated throughout the California detention system.
h/t Gay Star News
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